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Quotes About Aid

Abortion politics have distracted all sides from what is really essential: a major aid campaign to improve midwifery, prenatal care and emergency obstetric services in poor countries.
~ Nicholas D. Kristof
Whoever is in the distress can call me. I will come running wherever they are.
~ Princess Diana
Foreign aid is important. If it's done right, it spreads America's influence around the world in a positive way.
~ Marco Rubio
The first rule when you are in a hole is to ask for a hand out!
~ Stephen Richards
Aid the sick; thank the Divine Power for the state of equilibrium you are able to conserve.
~ Chico Xavier
Envy and malice are indefatigable. Where they have not invention enough to frame new slanders, or the slanders newly framed are found totally inadequate to their purpose, they will call in the feeble aid of old calumnies
~ Willard Sterne Randall
The great bulk of Marshall Plan funds returned to the United States, or never left, being paid directly to American corporations to purchase American goods. The US Agency for International Development (AID) stated in 1999: 'The principal beneficiary of America's foreign assistance programs has always been the United States.'20
~ William Blum
Remember, aid cannot achieve the end of poverty. Only homegrown development base on the dynamism of individuals and firms in free markets can do that.
~ William Easterly
money should not be spent according to what the West considers the most dramatic kind of suffering.
~ William Easterly
los organismos de ayuda no pueden acabar con la pobreza en el mundo, pero sí pueden hacer muchas cosas útiles para satisfacer las desesperadas necesidades de los pobres y darles nuevas oportunidades.
~ William Easterly
Hoy en día, la falta de retroalimentación es uno de los defectos más críticos de la ayuda.
~ William Easterly
These classes are sometimes discontented, and sometimes not. Sometimes they do not know that anything is amiss with them until the "friends of humanity" come to them with offers of aid. Sometimes
~ William Graham Sumner
Here, then, there would be a question of rights. The question whether voluntary charity is mischievous or not is one thing; the question whether legislation which forces one man to aid another is right and wise, as well as economically beneficial, is quite another question. Great
~ William Graham Sumner
Now, the aid which helps a man to help himself is not in the least akin to the aid which is given in charity. If
~ William Graham Sumner
Fear is an aid to the warrior. It is a small fire burning. It heats the muscles, making us stronger. Panic comes when the fire is out of control, consuming all courage and pride.
~ David Gemmell
Lincoln seems to have had the unusual notion that a public servant's first duty is to help people
~ David Herbert Donald
Just like the Alamo, somebody damn well needed to go to their aid. Well, by God, I'm going to Viet Nam's aid!
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
Try first thyself, and after call in God; For to the worker God himself lends aid.
~ Euripides
To know that God loves us in the state of grace or disgrace is the most powerful motivation to respond with the aid of grace to His loving call.
~ Michael Card
The spirit of non-violence necessarily leads to humility. Non-violence means reliance on God, the rock of ages. If we would seek his aid, we must approach Him with a humble and contrite heart.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Christ Not Begotten of Holy Ghost... Christ was begotten of God. He was not born without the aid of Man, and that Man was God!
~ Joseph Fielding Smith
The problem is people want help, but when help arrives you want to tell the help how to help you. Learn to RECEIVE help.
~ Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
I always wondered if the good people who send us bibles really think that hookworm and hunger are healed by scripture? Our patients are illiterate.
~ Abraham Verghese
The Clinton foundation has done a lot of good in the world.
~ Jane Harman